Riaz.Sohail: 2007

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Pakistan EMRGENCY News

Lawyers boycott court proceeding on 4th day
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071107_emergency_day4_zs.shtml

Emergency Arrests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071104_emergency_arrests_update.shtml

Emergency can be challanged- Justice Saeed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071103_saeed_emergency.shtml

Case be registerd on behalf of Benazir
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071106_ppp_blast_case_as.shtml

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Stories about Emergency

arrests Updated
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071104_emergency_arrests_update.shtml

Justice Saeed Zaman On Emergency
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071103_saeed_emergency.shtml

Sindh High COurt judges
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071104_judges_duty_nj.shtml

Friday, November 2, 2007

Safdar Sarki Granted bail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071102_safdar_bail.shtml

Sindh CM Arbab Booked
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071102_sindh_cm_booked.shtml

Daniel Pearl Memory Music programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071101_daniel_memory.shtml

BB back to Dubai
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/11/071101_bb_back_dubai_zs.shtml

Six arrested over Pakistan rape
Riaz Sohail BBC News, Karachi

Police in southern Pakistan have arrested six men in connection with the kidnap and rape of a 16-year-old girl.
Eleven men are accused of carrying out the attack near the town of Ubaro, about 530km (330 miles) from Karachi.
The girl's family say the rape was in revenge for her cousin eloping with a female relative of the accused.
Doctors confirmed the teenager was raped after she underwent tests in hospital. Such attacks are not uncommon in rural Pakistan in tribal vendettas.
'Left naked'
The rape took place on the morning of 27 January in the village of Habib Labano near Ubaro.
Read complete story on : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6316631.stm

Friday, October 19, 2007

benazir rally blast

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

ْBenazir Homecoming

Jialas Still there
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/10/071017_ppp_workers_pouring_fz.shtml

Airport roads closed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/10/071017_road_closed_zs.shtml

Benazir security
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/10/071012_benazir_security.shtml

Benazir cases
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/10/071009_benazir_case_nj.shtml

Benazir cases: bench constituted
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/10/071010_benazir_bench_zs.shtml

Monday, October 15, 2007

Stories about Sindh

Monday, September 17, 2007

Sindh:Participation in freedom uprising of 1857

Sindh's Participation in freedom uprising of 1857
missing from Pakistan's Text Books
Comments by Khalid Hashmani, McLean, Virginia, USA
Riaz Suhail has brought to our attention a forgotten chapter from Sindh's history. His recent article on the role of Sindh in the freedom uprising of 1857 on BBC web site:This article cites references by various historians including Dr. Liaq Zardari, who has a doctorate in Sindh's history. In addition to containing several historic photographs about 1857 uprising in Sindh, the article describes several incidents that show gallant participation by Sindh.
In conclusion, the author expresses disappointment that the history text books published by Pakistan and Sindh governments are devoid of any mention about the sacrifices that Sindhi Heroes made in that battle of freedom.To read full article of Riaz Suhail at BBC Urdu, click here

Freedom Fighter of Sindh - 1857
http://www.bbc.%20co.uk/urdu/%20pakistan/%20story/2007/%2009/070905_%20freedom_fighter_%20ra.shtml

Khair Bux Marri Interview
http://www.bbc.%20co.uk/urdu/%20pakistan/%20story/2007/%2008/070804_%20muri_interview_%20zs.shtml

Maderssah is Idealogy(BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/08/070802_madarsa_banori_zs.shtml

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Riaz BBC 2004

5. Girl sold against loan (Three Pics)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/07/040730_daughter_sold_sen.shtml

----------------- August 2004 ---------------
1. Khaibrani Police Post
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040807_girl_rape_police_ra.shtml
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2. Sindh protests against Balochistan operation -I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040809_sindh_protest_fz.shtml
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Sindh protests against Balochistan operation -II
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040809_sindh_protest_sen.shtml

Train Blasts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040816_sindhblast_sen.shtml

Thar poling Nisar detained
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040817_detention_opposition_sen.shtml

BBC August 2004

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040816_sindhblast_sen.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040817_detention_opposition_sen.shtml

Ahmedi Blasphemy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/10/041006_ahmadis_blasphemy.shtml

Theater Hyderabad 26 August, 2004 – Two pics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/story/2004/08/040826_hyderabad_theatre_si.shtml

Hindus feel the heat in Pakistan
By: Riaz Sohail, BBC News, KarachiJune 4, 2008
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6367773.stm
Hindus feel the heat in Pakistan
Riaz Sohail BBC News, Karachi
Wealthy Hindus like Garish Kumar are targets for kidnappers
The kidnap and murder of a Hindu engineer in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh has increased the insecurity among fellow Hindus.
Garish Kumar disappeared last month near Hyderabad city, 250 km (160 miles) from the port city of Karachi in Sindh.
His dismembered body parts were later found near a madrassa (Islamic religious school).
Police initially said the crime was committed by an outlawed Muslim militant group. Five people were arrested.
However, Hyderabad’s police chief, Shaukat Shah, the incident now seems to be a simple kidnapping for ransom case.
Minority report
Kumar’s father, Saspal Das, is a trader from Kunri town in Sindh’s central district of Umerkot.
Most Hindus are poor peasants and serve as bonded labour
“No one listens to the Hindu minority,” he complains. “”We have no security.
“We are targeted because we are Hindu. There is no other reason for kidnapping Garish.”
Pakistan is home to some 2.5 million Hindus, 95% of them living in the southern Sindh province.
Most are poor, low-caste peasants.
However there are also some successful upper caste businessmen. In Sindh, they are a hot commodity for bandits.
They lack the protection afforded to local tribal Muslims.
Whole tribes often go to war with one another in rural Sindh over any slight to their members.
That cushion is not available to the Hindu minority.
Protection money
In recent years kidnapping for ransom and armed robberies have multiplied in the area and Hindus have increasingly been the focus of attacks.
Hindus have to pay thousands of pounds to avoid kidnapping
Many pay protection money regularly to local gangs or influential figures. But in spite of this they are still targeted.
Santosh Kumar, a rice trader from Larkana town in upper Sindh, and his two brothers were kidnapped in separate incidents in 2006. They were later released after paying a huge ransom.
Another wealthy trader from the nearby city of Sukkur in Sindh, Sundeep Kumar, was kidnapped in 2005.
He was released after paying a ransom of over a million rupees ($16,000), according to local sources.
The ransom can sometimes go up to five times that amount.
But not all Hindus are as rich as Sundeep Kumar.
Last August, a youth, Ramesh Lal, was kidnapped. His relatives could not afford the ransom, and his body was later found at a police check post.
In the last three years at least five Hindu traders have been killed after being kidnapped or offering resistance.
“Powerful oppress the weak”
Ramesh Lal, a Hindu MP in Pakistan’s parliament says, “The Hindus are not as rich as portrayed.”
“Often the kidnappers ask a huge amount that the families cannot pay. As a result the hostages are killed.”
Even Hindu women and children are not spared by the kidnappers
The President of the Hindu council in Sukkur district, Mukhi Aishwar Lal says, “the powerful always oppress weaker communities… Hindus are weak so they are targeted.”
He relates how a few years back a Hindu family travelling by local bus were kidnapped by local bandits, while rest of the passengers were allowed to go.
Around that time some foreigners were also kidnapped in the same area. The police secured their release without any payment, but the Hindus were released after a huge ransom was doled out.
Such incidents increase the feeling among Hindus that they have no say in power and authority in the country.
Political apartheid
In Pakistan’s political system, the minorities, such as Hindus, Christians and Sikhs, remain outcasts despite represented in every major political party.
After Gen Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999, he scrapped the controversial separate electorate system introduced former dictator Gen Zia-ul-Haq in 1980s.
Under the separate electorate system, non-Muslims could only vote for candidates of their own religion. Seats were reserved for minorities in the national and provincial assemblies.
Critics said Muslim candidates no longer had any incentive to pay attention to the aspirations of the minorities.
Gen Musharraf hoped to reverse that by the simple step of abolishing the system. But that appears to have failed.
Sudham Chand, a Hindu community leader who led a local campaign to scrap the separate electorate system was killed in broad daylight. His murder conveyed many a message.
The killers were not arrested. His brother later migrated to India.
Ramesh Lal, a member of the National Assembly, says that the restoration of the conventional electoral system is of little use if the minorities have no security.
And still, he complains, no one asks the minorities what problems they are suffering.
Losing faith
Mukhi Aishwar Lal agrees that Hindus in Sindh are still afraid.
Garish Kumar’s grieving father, Saspal, wants justice
They are frightened to move outside freely. Some even put themselves under a self-imposed curfew after 2000 hours a few months ago.

“No-one is targeting the minorities,” argues Kishanchand Parwani, Advisor for Minorities’ Affairs to the Sindh Government.
But he admits that, although the minorities are supposed to be equal citizens according to the constitution, the reality is different. He accepts that they feel like second class citizens.
Garish Kumar’s father, Saspal Das, still retains faith in the system: “I will fight till I get justice for my son.”

But many Hindu families who stayed in Pakistan after partition have already lost faith and migrated to India.
http://sindhihindus.wordpress.com/category/hindus-feel-the-heat-in-pakistan-riaz-sohail-bbc-karachi/

stories 2006

Riaz Sohail

hindu community
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/10/061019_hindu_community_ra.shtml

danish_hindu Cadet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/09/060926_danish_hindu_cadet_fz.shtml

serial_killer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/10/061018_serial_killer_karachi.shtml
rehman_dacoit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/06/060621_rehman_dacoit_fz.shtml
kfc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/08/050824_dacoits_killed_rs.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/08/050809_kfc_arrest_zs.shtml
sindh_advisors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/10/061019_sindh_advisors_sen.shtml
indian_fishermen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/10/061018_indian_fishermen_rza.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/10/061018_indian_fishermen_rza.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/09/060928_accident_22dead_sq.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/06/060603_karachi_traffic.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/05/060512_sindh_strike.shtml
journalists_protests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/05/060531_journalists_protests_fz.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/06/060602_karachi_electricity_ra.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/05/060511_karachi_baton_as.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/09/050915_hindu_girl_rs.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/08/050806_cotractteacher_sen.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/05/060524_water_khi_diseases.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/09/060920_mqmactivists_killed_sq.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060729_musharraf_sind_nayab.shtml
pm_mqm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060729_pm_mqm_sen.shtml

mqm_reversal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/01/060109_mqm_reversal_zs.shtml
mqm_threat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/01/060108_mqm_threat_zs.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060727_mqm_resignation1_zs.shtml
talal_deadbody
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/08/060828_talal_deadbody_si.shtml
sp_arrested

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/08/060809_sp_arrested_si.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/08/060809_sp_arrested_si.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060731_karachi_rains_si.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060726_journalist_missing_sen.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060708_thar_express_sen.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/05/060503_local_singers_ra.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/10/061004_karachi_islands_uk.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/09/060921_jouranlist_missing_uk.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/09/060908_rains_sindh_uk.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/08/060823_karachi_train_hijack_uk.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060701_karachi_generator_na.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/04/060427_doctor_karachi_death_ra.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/04/060426_workers_missing_rza.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/03/060329_wsf_concluded_fz.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/story/2006/03/060322_sobah_kar_fz.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/02/060218_thar_oldman_ajmair_ra.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/02/060218_comrade_janam_ra.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/01/060119_ajrak_portest_fz.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/12/051208_quake_rally_ak.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/11/051115_khi_blast_update_zs.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/10/051026_wounded_kar_sen.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/10/051020_fire_quake_as.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/10/051020_muskan_sen.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/10/051012_kuffun_cloth_sen.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/story/2005/09/050927_concert_audio_vedio_zs.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/story/2005/09/050927_concert_kar_sen.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/09/050905_woman_judge.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060719_gm_sllyabus_rs.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2006/07/060728_mqm_controversy.shtml

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/07/050712_mayor_karachi.shtml

Riaz Sohail: Stories June I, 2005

Riaz Sohail: Stories June I, 2005

Friday, September 7, 2007

Stories of Riaz